1. “Released as summer days reached their longest, the album is a warm and inviting meditation on the season, and like summer, ends sooner than you’d hope.  The firefly-flecked title track quivers with a day’s dying bird songs, cooling into what might be a field recording of several extremely relaxed musicians enjoying sweet tea on a porch at twilight.  Playing it loose but keeping it tight, the band rolls into the charming ‘Cereal’ before pulling out the big guns (or rather, flower bombs) on ‘Eyes of Love.’”

    Tiffany Hairston reviews new records from Murals and Electric Guest.

    (Source: Spotify)

  2. “Working for a small shop like ours, it’s easy to envy Pitchfork Media. With an expanded staff, accommodating resources and a revenue flow, Pitchfork churns out review after review, feature after feature, announcement after announcement, and so on. The FP skeleton crew busts their ass to bring you daily essays, recipes, photo journals, lists and of course, reviews, all (we hope) with the signature FP seal of quality. This isn’t to say their editors and writers don’t work hard or that they don’t employ quality standards, it’s just that the economies of scale are clearly in their favor. What is more difficult is to give credit where credit is due.” Peter Lillis reviews Pitchfork Music Fest, with photos courtesy of filmmaker Mark Meatto.

    “Working for a small shop like ours, it’s easy to envy Pitchfork Media. With an expanded staff, accommodating resources and a revenue flow, Pitchfork churns out review after review, feature after feature, announcement after announcement, and so on. The FP skeleton crew busts their ass to bring you daily essays, recipes, photo journals, lists and of course, reviews, all (we hope) with the signature FP seal of quality. This isn’t to say their editors and writers don’t work hard or that they don’t employ quality standards, it’s just that the economies of scale are clearly in their favor. What is more difficult is to give credit where credit is due.”

    Peter Lillis reviews Pitchfork Music Fest, with photos courtesy of filmmaker Mark Meatto.

  3. Stop what you’re doing and enjoy the return of Minus the Bear. Infinity Overhead will be released by Dangerbird Records on August 28th.

  4. FP favorites Murder By Death have announced their newest album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon will be released on 9/25. We had a chance to talk with singer/songwriter Adam Turla about the record, which he described as “Twin Peaks-esque.” Read the whole interview here.

    FP favorites Murder By Death have announced their newest album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon will be released on 9/25. We had a chance to talk with singer/songwriter Adam Turla about the record, which he described as “Twin Peaks-esque.” Read the whole interview here.

  5. If you haven’t heard Chromatics’ Kill for Love yet…what the hell is wrong with you?  Click the photo to read our review, then spend some time with the album.  

    If you haven’t heard Chromatics’ Kill for Love yet…what the hell is wrong with you?  Click the photo to read our review, then spend some time with the album.  

  6. New from Dirty Projectors: a demo that didn’t make their upcoming album Swing Lo, Magellan.  

  7. Thanks to Cursive and Cymbals Eat Guitars for covering this 90s sensitive-boy classic, “Hey Jealousy.”

  8. Easter, FP style.  

  9. Simultaneously lovely and amusing new track from Swedish duo jj, whose new LP is due in May via Secretly Canadian and Sincerely Yours.  This would have fit in well on their Kills mixtape, which you can still download here. 

  10. Best Covers of 2012 post coming on the main site Monday.  Preview!  The more we hear from Twin Shadow the better.

  11. Better late than never, but I’ve been really enjoying Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain lately.

  12. This new Dirty Projectors track is tremendous, but it deserved to be heard on real speakers.  Need that bass.  

  13. Wisconsin duo Peaking Lights released our fourth favorite psychedelic album of 2011 with their sophomore effort 936.  The band is back in June with a new album entitled Lucifer, and in anticipation they have released this mixtape, which supposedly includes portions of the new record.  Stream in its entirety above.  

  14. New video for “Night Swim” from the wonderful Frankie Rose.  Get her album Interstellar here.  

  15. This story about the transgendered beauty queen kicked out of the Miss Universe pageant is oddly reminiscent of Clem Snide’s opus “Born A Man” from 2009’s Hungry Bird.

    “Startled by the paper and it’s unfamiliar slant, it said the local beauty pageant winner had been born a man. They chased her through the wheat fields and stripped her of her crown, so desperate to get their dusty seed into the ground.”